U+1844A "𘑊" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘑊
U+1844A "𘑊" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China between the 11th and 16th centuries. This specific ideograph represents a single lexical or conceptual unit within the vast Tangut logographic corpus, which contains over 6,000 distinct characters. Its precise meaning is currently unknown or unconfirmed by modern scholarship, as many Tangut characters remain undeciphered or lack definitive semantic classifications. The character is encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode 9.0, allowing for digital representation and study of this rare historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1844A |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Ideograph-# |
| Block | Tangut |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘑊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘑊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x91 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDC4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001844A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udc4a |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Tangut |
| Script Extensions | Tangut |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |
| Ideographic | Yes |
| kTGT_RSUnicode | 436.17 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5231 |